'House': Kiss of Life

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So, we see that House is the emotionally stunted infant in Cuddy's life, as he tests her throughout the episode to see if she'll take care of him. (His relationship with everyone involves testing limits and seeing how much crap they can/will take before they'll reject him. He fears loss and so he tries to stave it off, as the doctor who takes on death each week.) He tossed baby puke onto her sweater and broke her lamp. Yet, despite House's tantrums, she turned to him for advice on whether to save her possible baby or its dying mother. And for her trouble House told her, "Some part of you doesn't want this baby and that part of you wants to tell her to kill it." Yikes.

I loved this episode and was riveted from the start. The opening sequence was shot with X-Files eeriness and precision. The cold green-blue color palette was wonderfully filmic and similar to the way the bus-crash sequence in last season's cliff-hanger was shot. And I appreciated that the subplot of Cuddy's adoption overtook the usual game of symptom whodunit. There was also Thirteen's feistiness during the differentials, and that passionate frustration with House's slap banter finally gave her a third dimension. She really seemed to let loose a little more. When she and Taub went on the coke buy to determine what else was in the dealer's product, Thirteen boasted, "I'm just a bitch who knows what she wants." Whoa. Score one for the personality upgrade. Nice!

Another great line of the night came from House when they discovered that the seemingly wide-awake snoozer patient was hooked on blow: "Sleeping Beauty has a jones for Snow White." And yes, it was sad that Cuddy didn't get her baby once Meth Mom decided that instead of narcotics, she'd use the tyke to reach for happiness and love (hated that idea), but the broken-up doc seems to have gained a bigger baby. One who spent the entire episode warning her that she could not take care of him.

Hearing the beautiful song "Fire," by Daniel Lanois, which played during this sorrowful sequence, reminded me how much I loved that entire album, 2003's Shine. Check out track 2, a beautiful duet with some dude named Bono. It's called ''Falling at Your Feet'' and it sums up the end of this episode nicely, I think.

Was the Huddy kiss all that you hoped it would be? Did you find Thirteen more interesting this week?